Whether or not Albert Einstein gave his brain to science may be a matter of debate, (Click) but it would be fascinating to compare his mind to Donald Trump’s.   Einstein’s IQ is 160 while Trump claims his is 156.  The number means less to me than how well a person g

When Stephen Hawking’s book, A Brief History of Time  came out several years ago, someone hid money at the back of one copy to see if anyone  got to the end of this complex work on cosmology.  The book hit the best seller list and remained there for 4 years, but no on

Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX has a new dream.  Beyond technology for the earth and the stars, he wants to redesign humankind.  If we don’t use our know-how to enhance ourselves, he believes artificial intelligence will conquer humanity. (“Hacking mortality,” The Week

Four years ago, I wrote a blog in which I quoted 29- year-old Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, as saying young people were smarter than anyone else.  (Click) By my math, he turned 34 on May 14 of this year, and when I read his recent testimony before Congress, I had to smile. (Clic

If the young want to know why the old keep looking to the past, I’ll tell them.  Sometimes, we old folks  don’t like where the future is taking us.  Our measuring stick is Time and being  longer than theirs, the old can recognize the difference between progress and change.  W

I had a long and convoluted conversation with my stock broker this morning.  Times are volatile for the market and for the world, and so we bent our heads together to examine ways to preserve capital.  In the end, we concluded no place was safe.  Putting money in a bank, bonds or i

Thinking about Artificial Intelligence, Stephen Hawking warns, “One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.” (“The End of Code,” by Jason Tanz,

Artificial intelligence (AI):  Will it bring in the best or the worst of times?  That is the question futurists, philosopher, techies and scientists are debating.  Recently, Stephen Hawking chipped in with his opinion: we are doomed.  Certainly, robotics is turning our economy on

We humans have curious minds and I use the word in two senses: 1) as minds that take an interest in the world around them, and 2) as minds being strange in themselves.  Hamlet observed, “What a piece of work is man,” (Hamlet II, ii) and  I couldn’t say it better.  The entire

I watched a documentary hosted by Stephen Hawking last night. He spoke somberly about the dangers posed in an ever-changing universe and argued for continued technological developments that would allow us to explore other galaxies and other hospitable planets.  Given that technology